Land matters: landscape photography, culture and identity

In this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in colour and black & white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers engage with issues about land, its representation and idealisation. She demonstrates how the visual interpretation of land as landscape re...

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Main Author: Wells, Liz 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York Routledge 2011
Series:International library of cultural studies
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Online Access:KUBA1
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Summary:In this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in colour and black & white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers engage with issues about land, its representation and idealisation. She demonstrates how the visual interpretation of land as landscape reflects and reinforces contemporary political, social and environmental attitudes. She also asks what is at stake in landscape photography now through placing critical appraisal of key examples of work by photographers working in, for example, the USA, in Europe, Scandinavia and Baltic areas, within broa
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 333 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781003103585
DOI:10.4324/9781003103585

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